Not Your Average Chart - Please take a look!

The arrangement of these charts is less commonly seen but very
useful. Its in a simple grid with all the notes in a given
position or fingering in the same column. The higher the note,
the higher it is on the column. There are seven columns, one for
every position or valve combination. (In the French Horn chart,
I simplified the chart for beginners by only listing the five
valve combinations commonly used.) You can clearly see how the
notes go down by half step as you read from left to right. In
essence, the chart is organized like the instrument.

I keep this chart right on the stand with students that are not
intimately familiar with the layout of the instrument. I
constantly point to the chart to show them how what they are
playing relates to "the lay of the land". If they play a lip
setting too high, I show them on the chart what note they
accidentally played, and how the real note is lower. I show them
how lip slurs work by singing the slur and pointing to the
chart. For beginners, I circle the first few notes of the Bb
scale, so they can see the notes they have learned in relation
to the whole instrument.

The layout is designed to communicate how the horn is
"organized" and is less visually intimidating than your average
chart. I first encountered a layout of this type in Scott
Whitener's excellent book, A Complete Guide to Brass
Instruments and Pedagogy.